Remember, in 2021, when TikTok was suddenly awash with sea shanties? It remains one of the most inexplicable, albeit wholesome, online crazes of the pandemic era: a tide of videos of young men (mostly men) with beards and nice sweaters adding layers of harmonies to ancient seamen's work songs. For a hot minute, these a capella folk songs about a sailor's sorry lot were the coolest music on the planet — and all because a Scottish singer called Nathan Evans uploaded a video of himself singing "Wellerman," a whaler's shanty originating in New Zealand.
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